This piece was all about trying to figure out a particular digital challenge. I had in my memory an old Yoga Journal cover in which a photograph kind of merged into a hand-drawing, and I wanted to play with re-creating the effect. So I recycled this image from the other day and played around with masks and layers, trying to nicely fade her photographed dress into my hand-drawn dress. I’m not thrilled with it, but I learned a few things.
It wasn’t until afterwards that I was able to find the original:
Now I want to play with this idea some more.
This kind of playing with different media is so expressive and so much fun! She is expressing so much joy!
I’ve tried this before. You’ve made her look like she’s stepping out of a magical world and becoming a real person. I like it.